Why Do Coaches Always Beat Up On The Little Sisters Of The Poor?
The Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news again, but surprisingly not as a sports metaphor for a patsy opponent.…
Auburn's Field Goal Return Was Even Rarer Than You Think
The insane ending to last week's Iron Bowl had sports fans wondering if any college football game had ever ended in…
How The NFL Used To Punish Teams For Crowd Noise
Last month, Kansas City Chiefs fans broke CenturyLink Field's record for world's loudest stadium. Not long ago,…
Children's Song Will Teach Young Knicks Fans How To Face Despair
The fight for the future fandom of New York's children has finally been memorialized in the instant classic, "Who Do…
Remembering Ashley Whippet, History's Best Frisbee-Catching Dog
The Ashley Whippet Invitational is the world's premier athletic competition for dogs that excel at catching frisbees,…
Who Made The Not-Quite-Baseball-Hall-Of-Fame In 2013?
So we know who made up the class of 2013 at the Baseball Hall of Fame: no one. Well, OK, the veterans committee voted…
Meet Fred Ettish, The Folk Hero Of UFC 2
Saturday's UFC card featured one helluva beatdown: Jon "Bones" Jones turned Chael Sonnen into a bloody mess. But at…
A Curious List Of Things That Floyd Landis Is Not Allowed To Say About Pat McQuaid
Pat McQuaid, former president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has long been at odds with disgraced cyclist…
What Happens When You Try To Buy Or Sell Counterfeit NFL Jerseys?
Slate's Josh Levin attended the Seahawks-Redskins game on Sunday, and, while he saw a lot of genuine RGIII memorabilia,…
Dear ESPN Announcers: Please Stop Inventing Merits Of Terrible Bowl Games
We can understand why so many mediocre bowls line our on-screen guides every December and early January: They're…
Meet Godfrey Chitalu, The Zambian Lionel Messi
Barça's Lionel Messi scored a lot of goals this year. 86 of them, apparently.* That's a record for a soccer player. Or…
Lots Of NHL Players Have Headed To A Russian City That Is Essentially A Toxic Waste Dump
Magnitogorsk, Russia. Our kind of town. They've got one hell of a hockey team, with Evgeni Malkin and Nikolai Kulemin,…
A Story About College Sports Conferences, Told Through One School's Many Entangling Alliances
You want to know what conference realignment looks like? We've told you about how it works at bigger schools, but how…
Oh No, Caffeinated Cracker Jack ("Cracker Jack'd") Is A Thing Now
Oh no, oh no, oh no. Not only do the folks at Frito-Lay want to ruin your childhood, they want to ruin baseball too.…
We Love You, Verne Lundquist, But It's Time To Go
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh Levin makes a simple, fair case for why cuddly…
This Is The Best Sports Internet Rabbithole You Can Find
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Stefan Fatsis found a place on the internet where you…
An Interview With Ove Johansson, The Man Who Kicked The Longest Field Goal Ever
We're in a glorious age for placekickers. St. Louis's Greg "The Leg" Zuerlein wows us every Sunday. David Akers hit a a…
FIBA Really Wants Three-On-Three Basketball In The 2016 Olympics
Olympic basketball is fun. But doesn't it look a little too much like NBA basketball? Sure, the lanes are were…
A Major Match-Fixing Scandal Is Rocking French Handball
Handball: it's not just a sport to watch on CNBC at 7:45 a.m. in early August every four years. Apparently there are…
An Exhaustive Audio History Of The "Yankees Suck" Chant
This week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast is super-timely. It's got the Red Sox, the Yankees, and…